Bible

This is a history of the King James Version of the Bible (known in Britain as the Authorised Version) over the four hundred years from its remote beginnings to the present day.

Gordon Campbell, expert in Renaissance literatures, tells the fascinating and complex story of how this
translation came to be commissioned, of who the translators were, and of how the translation was accomplished. The story does not end with the printing of that first edition, but introduces the subsequent generations who edited and interacted with the text. The present text of the King James Version
differs in thousands of small details from the original edition. Campbell traces the textual history from 1611 to the establishment of the modern text by Oxford University Press in 1769.

Attitudes to the King James Version have shifted through time and territory, ranging from adulation
to deprecation and attracting the attention of a wide variety of adherents. It is more widely read in America today than in any other country, and its particular history in there is given due attention.

Generously illustrated with reproductions taken from early editions, this volume
helps to explain the enduring popularity of the King James Version throughout the world today.

Readership : General reader interested in the history and literary genesis of the King James Bible; students and scholars of seventeenth-century british history and literature; of the reception history of the Bible.

Introduction1. The Bible in English2. The Commissioning of the KJV3. Translators and Translating4. The Translation5. The First Edition6. The Seventeenth Century7. The Eighteenth Century8. The Nineteenth Century9. The Bible in America10.
The Cambridge Paragraph Bibles11. The Revised Version12. The Early Twentieth Century13. The KJV in the Modern WorldAppendix 1: The Companies and Later RevisersAppendix 2: The Preliminaries to the KJVFurther ReadingIndex

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Gordon Campbell is Professor of Renaissance Studies at Leicester University.